Mini Biography

Born near Yuma, Arizona, on March 31, 1927, Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the plight of farmworkers, and formed both the National Farm Workers Association, which later became United Farm Workers. As a labor leader, Chavez led marches, called for boycotts and went on several hunger strikes. It is believed that Chavez's hunger strikes contributed to his death on April 23, 1993, in San Luis, Arizona.

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Choose a sentence option that replaced the underlined words in the original sentence from the caption without changing the meaning.   Click on the links in the caption to read the dictionary definition. Write your answers in the comments below. 

1. Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent means to bring attention to the plight of farmworkers

• Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent significance to bring attention to the fight of farmworkers
• Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent average to bring attention to the thinking of farmworkers
• Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent ways to bring attention to the fight of farmworkers
• Cesar Chavez employed nonviolent evil to bring attention to the ways of farmworkers

      2.  It is believed that Chavez's hunger strikes contributed to his death

•  It is believed that Chavez's hunger protests contributed to his death
•  It is believed that Chavez's hunger violence contributed to his death
•  It is believed that Chavez's hunger pains contributed to his death
•  It is believed that Chavez's hunger ideas contributed to his death